Marvelous Achievements With Four years of Dr. Aliyu Hamza Balarabe.

“Dr. Aliyu Hamza Balarabe has been able to increase the professional capacity of the FMC Birnin Kebbi workforce”.

Every organization or institution that is thriving is obviously blessed with a good leader. The Federal Medical Centre Birnin Kebbi is indeed thriving because a man with a remarkable ability is at the helms of affairs. That person is Dr Aliyu Hamza Balarabe.

Since he assumed duty as the medical director of FMC Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi State, the medical centre has witnessed monumental and unprecedented development in various areas, including Service delivery, physical and infrastructural as well as hospital equipments and staff wellfare.

It is however good to point out right here the secret behind the accomplishments. On assuming duty he began by appreciating the efforts and contributions of his predecessors who laid the foundation stone of the medical centre. 

This he did by thorough study of the available records at his disposal and physical inspection of existant policies, programs and structures in the FMC that gave him full insight and sense of direction of how to move the medical centre to another level of development. 

It was from there he identified the most important and urgent needs of the federal medical centre Birnin Kebbi. 

HIS ACHIEVEMENTS AS MEDICAL DIRECTOR:

In his effort to apply the best of his ability to reposition and improve the performance of this institution, the Medical Director was able to record numerous achievements:

Service Delivery: The Management, under his leadership has improved the various services rendered to the centre’s clients. According to SERVICOM has been upgraded and empowered to monitor all the service points to ensure that patients are served right. The Federal Medical Centre, Birnin Kebbi is amongst equals to publish its Service Charter and keep clients informed about the services rendered and what is expected from the customers/clients.

Infrastructural Development: In the area of infrastructure development, the Medical Director, har done excellent job by ensuring that the Centre was renovated (construction and reconstruction).

Completion of Amenity ward to accommodate the newly acquired medical equipment befitting modern times, even a visitor to the Centre will appreciate the fact that most of the Departments/Units have undergone facelift as they are now looking new and beautiful and 

Also, there’s Provision of Hospital Equipments across the medical centre  whereby Purchase of Power Generating Set, Purchase of Environmental Materials, Tree Planting and Horticulture, etc.

Human Resource Development: A significant number of staff were sponsored for either long or short term courses during the period under review. In his bid to ensure best practice in terms of Healthcare is achieved, Dr. Aliyu ensured that staff were sent for training and retraining in order to refresh and update their knowledge for better output.

INDUSTRIAL HARMONY

Over the years, the Medical Director, Dr. Aliyu Balarabe, has done a lot to maintain industrial harmony. His open door policy to the leadership of various Workers, Unions in the Centre through regular interaction has led to a continuous industrial harmony with attendant positive consequences of unhindered healthcare delivery in the Centre.

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOST COMMUNITY

In order to strengthen the existing good relationship between the Centre and the host community, Hospital Committee League of Friends and Conflict Resolution were reconstituted thereby involving well meaning individuals and holders of various traditional title to be mediating, in any case of complaints by a group or individual, so that lasting solutions would be provided to such cases.